Artistic Licence Sunday, March 07, 2010
By Nadine O’Regan The sound of reinvention
A font of facts, useful and otherwise Sunday, March 07, 2010
Reviewed by Helen Boylan Did you know that Sharon Stone has a higher IQ than Stephen Hawking and Mozart? Or that the most likely times of the year for relationship break-ups are about a month after Valentine’s Day and two weeks before the winter holidays?
The Kennedy who asked what his country could do for him Sunday, March 07, 2010
Reviewed by Andrew Lynch A few months after his inauguration as US president in 1961, John F Kennedy was playing backgammon at the family compound in Hyannis Port with his friend and distant relation, Gore Vidal.
Making sense of contemporary Ireland Sunday, March 07, 2010
Reviewed by Val Nolan ‘The talk these days is mostly of emigration, who is leaving, or who has gone, or is thinking about going.” Gerald Dawe wrote those words in 1988, as economic circumstances forced ‘‘well-educated people, with small families or just married’’ out of the country in their thousands.
The society beauty and the fascist dictator Sunday, March 07, 2010
Reviewed by Dermot Bolger History has a way of immortalising people based not just on what they do, but on when they do it.
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